The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1373 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,373 notable train routes across 120 countries. High-speed, classic, night, scenic, heritage and luxury lines, with the facts behind every one.

From the Glacier Express, the Bernina Express and the Trans-Siberian to the Shinkansen, the Eurostar and the California Zephyr: every route is drawn on a fullscreen world map with its distance, fastest journey time, top speed, operator, rolling stock and the year the line opened. Free, no signup. The interactive map needs JavaScript; the index below reaches the same atlas as static pages.

Explore the atlas

• All 1373 routes the full atlas index, by category
• Every route by the numbers one sortable table: distance, time, speed, year, ridership
• Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
• Europe train map 849 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 116 sleeper routes, with per-city pages
• The night-train revival 22 sleepers back since 2016, charted by decade
• The highest railways in the world 53 lines ranked by altitude, up to 5,072 m
• The longest train journeys 110 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 117 cross-border trains linking 59 countries
• Train vs plane door-to-door times & CO₂e on 109 European city pairs
• Scenic train routes the lines you ride for the window seat
• Heritage & museum railways preserved steam lines and vintage excursions, by country
• Mountain railways the rack and cable lines that climb what ordinary trains cannot
• The oldest railways still running every line that opened before 1900 and still carries passengers
• Luxury train routes the trains you ride for the train itself
• Train routes by country 90 countries
• Open dataset every route as CSV, JSON & GeoJSON (facts CC BY 4.0)
• About one person’s hobby project; corrections logged and credited
• City to city 670 journey guides: times, changes, operators

Recently corrected

• Five more, every one of them on its train's own track at p90 zero and on real rails for the whole of its length. The Direttissima under the Apennines is the one worth stopping at: opened complete on 22 April 1934, an eighteen and a half kilometre base tunnel that was then the second longest in the world after the Simplon, and a hundred and eighty kilometres an hour where the old line over the pass managed seventy five. Beside it, Udine to Trieste through Gorizia and out along the Carso, whose last two sections opened three days apart in October 1860; Ljubljana to Jesenice, the Slovenian half of the Rudolf Railway, opened complete on 14 December 1870; Gotha to Leinefelde across the Thuringian Basin, 1870, now rebuilt for a hundred and sixty; and the Danish Northwest line from Roskilde out to the Great Belt at Kalundborg, opened on 30 December 1874. 2026-08-26
• One fact has blocked two good lines today and it is now unblocked for good: who runs the train. German regional networks change hands on tender and the web disagrees with itself for years afterwards, so the Saalbahn and the Gotha line were both set aside rather than ship a contested operator. The planner knew all along. It answers from the operators' own data, and its reply carries the company on every leg; `_ask-scotty` now prints it. The Gotha line runs under DB Regio Sudost, the Saalbahn under Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland, and the Halle to Halberstadt card shipped earlier today under Start Mitteldeutschland is confirmed correct. The operator is no longer a thing that has to be searched for. 2026-08-26
• Three candidates were dropped on evidence rather than on doubt. Zvolen to Kosice and Valga to Tartu are both already on this map under other names, which the coverage tool said by naming the existing card rather than by scoring low. The Lille to Fontinettes relation carries five kilometres of track in OpenStreetMap, so there is nothing to draw. And the Lubeck to Puttgarden line's only direct service is a bus, which the Fehmarn works explain and which a map of where trains run should not show as a train. 2026-08-26

Errors get fixed, usually within a day: the corrections log.

The 24 most famous train routes

• Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow → Vladivostok
• Glacier Express Zermatt → St. Moritz
• Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
• Bernina Express Chur → Tirano
• Tokaido Shinkansen Tokyo → Osaka
• The Ghan Adelaide → Darwin
• Rocky Mountaineer Vancouver → Banff
• Flåmsbana Myrdal → Flåm
• Cusco–Machu Picchu Cusco → Machu Picchu
• Trans-Mongolian Ulaanbaatar → Beijing
• Darjeeling Toy Train New Jalpaiguri → Darjeeling
• California Zephyr Chicago → San Francisco
• The Jacobite Fort William → Mallaig
• Qinghai–Tibet Railway Xining → Lhasa
• Rovos Rail Pretoria → Victoria Falls
• The Blue Train Pretoria → Cape Town
• Jungfraubahn Grindelwald → Jungfraujoch
• Eastern & Oriental Express Singapore → Bangkok
• Eurostar London → Paris
• The Canadian Toronto → Vancouver
• Indian Pacific Sydney → Perth
• Maeklong Railway Bangkok → Samut Songkhram
• El Chepe Los Mochis → Chihuahua
• West Highland Line Glasgow → Mallaig

Train routes by country

Algeria · Angola · Argentina · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Belarus · Belgium · Bolivia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Brazil · Bulgaria · Cambodia · Canada · Chile · China · Colombia · Croatia · Czechia · Denmark · Egypt · England · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · Hungary · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Japan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Laos · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Madagascar · Malaysia · Mexico · Moldova · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Netherlands · New Zealand · Nigeria · North Macedonia · Northern Ireland · Norway · Pakistan · Peru · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia · Saudi Arabia · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · South Africa · South Korea · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sweden · Switzerland · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · Tunisia · Türkiye · Turkmenistan · Ukraine · United Kingdom · United States · Uzbekistan · Vietnam · Wales · Zimbabwe